Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant principle of exalting the private judgment of each individual. When Luther posted his thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, he unleashed upon the world a Pandora's box full of the evils of paganism, free love, divorce, and error from which the world has not yet recovered...
According to the intrasubjectivists' manifesto, an intrasubjective painter is not inspired by anything visible, but "only by something he hasn't seen yet . . . He begins with nothingness. That is the only thing he copies. The rest he invents...
...police had not yet disclosed who had done the "salting," or how.* Next day, Milne's Free State Gold Areas tumbled 41% in value, to 8s. a share...
...Putnam's translation, Cervantes' style proves in English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
...everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived," the knight mournfully admits. Yet hand and eye are not enough. When an enchanter turns a castle into a mere mill before his eyes, Don Quixote despairs: "God help us all, this world is nothing but schemes and plots, all working at cross-purposes. I can do no more...